"sink one's teeth into" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sinks one's teeth into",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sinking one's teeth into",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sank one's teeth into",
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        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sunk one's teeth into",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To bite; to bite into."
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "word": "sink one's teeth in"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He can't wait to sink his teeth into the new project.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Gavin McInnes, The Death of Cool: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood, Simon and Schuster, page 88",
          "text": "He seemed happy living life in cruise control, which pissed me off. “Don't you want to really sink your teeth into something?” I asked.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become enthusiastically involved in."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "enthusiastic",
          "enthusiastic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, figurative, by extension) To become enthusiastically involved in."
      ],
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        "figuratively"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "sink one's teeth into"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sinks one's teeth into",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "sinking one's teeth into",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sank one's teeth into",
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        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sunk one's teeth into",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "To bite; to bite into."
      ],
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        [
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        ]
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    },
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        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
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        {
          "text": "He can't wait to sink his teeth into the new project.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Gavin McInnes, The Death of Cool: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood, Simon and Schuster, page 88",
          "text": "He seemed happy living life in cruise control, which pissed me off. “Don't you want to really sink your teeth into something?” I asked.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become enthusiastically involved in."
      ],
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        [
          "enthusiastic",
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        ]
      ],
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        "(colloquial, figurative, by extension) To become enthusiastically involved in."
      ],
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        "figuratively"
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    }
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      "word": "sink one's teeth in"
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  "word": "sink one's teeth into"
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